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   Martin Owens :inkscape: (doctormo@floss.social)'s status on Sunday, 17-Sep-2023 20:49:48 JST Martin Owens :inkscape:

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   • NiceMicro
   • Al Sutton

   @nicemicro @alsutton

   It's because Proprietary software's entire organisational principle is to carve out incompatible monopoly fiefdoms free from government oversights and market forces.

   People think open source is some hippie commune thing, but it's really not. It hews far closer to free trade open markets where you can pick and choose your support separate from your supplier at every level.

   It's difficult to make a living doing open source, but it's fair to the consumer.

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     NiceMicro (nicemicro@fosstodon.org)'s status on Sunday, 17-Sep-2023 20:49:49 JST NiceMicro

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     • Al Sutton

     @alsutton
     Truly, #FreeSoftware is the only way the user / customer can make sure, they won't be just left with no support if suddenly the software vendor goes under / gets taken over by aliens.

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     Al Sutton (alsutton@snapp.social)'s status on Sunday, 17-Sep-2023 20:49:58 JST Al Sutton

     • Godot Engine :godot:
     • Snapp Automotive

     It’s interesting to watch the #Unity licensing change cluster-fluff unfold. It feels, to me, like a Birdsite -> Mastodon Elon level, migration opperunity to get folk onto an open source engine like @godotengine

     Personally I’m interested in exploring #godotengine for Automotive use to support our work at @snappautomotive, because open source solutions give our customers an easy path to verifying the core technologies we use to build #SnappOS